Nancy, Ned, and George attend the show of a magician named Dan, in which he makes his assistant disappear, and Nancy investigates when the girl fails to reappear.
Chronicles the life of magician, illusionist, and showman, Harry Houdini, discussing his childhood, death-defying feats, relationships, and other exploits.
A magician named Valerian has only the days between Christmas and New Years to save his own life after making a pact with the devil years before and seeks the help of a servant boy and an orphan girl named Willow.
Discusses the lives of eight famous magicians, including Robert-Houdin, Herrman the Great, Kellar, Harry Houdini, Jasper Maskelyne, David Copperfield, and Penn and Teller.
With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.